An advertisement appeared in the Launceston Advertiser in March 1830 announcing that “M. Phillips, Watchmaker”, was setting up business at the White Conduit House hotel on the corner of Brisbane and Charles streets in Launceston. Moses Phillips was almost certainly Launceston’s first resident clock and watchmaker and the White Conduit House hotel, later the Bull’s Head Inn, was more recently the site of Cleavers Hardware and now Country Road store. Moses Phillips had arrived

The fourth Thomas Archer of the farming property Woolmers at Longford was a member of the Tamar Yacht Club for more than 50 years. Thomas Cathcart Archer, usually referred to as “T. C.” or Tom, was born in 1862 and like his father, Thomas Chalmers Archer, was interested in boating from an early age. Tom Archer acquired his first yacht, Leisure Hour, in 1880 and was 22 when he was elected vice-commodore of the Tamar Yacht Club in 1884. He had the 42-foot steam yacht Ione built